‘Cities of tents’: Trump heightens anti-immigrant rhetoric at White House

On Nov 2, 2018

Speech billed as policy address offers few specifics as president pledges to indefinitely detain migrants

Donald Trump has stepped up his rhetorical attack over immigration ahead of next week’s midterm elections, using a White House address on Thursday to float what is possibly an unconstitutional clampdown on asylum-seekers – and hinted that even people throwing stones while at the US border could be targeted with military firepower.

In a session lasting almost an hour in the Roosevelt Room, Trump talked tough on immigration but failed to deliver much in the way of specifics. White House aides had previously billed the event inaccurately as a policy announcement.